John Miner
Appearances by year
- SQLSaturday
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2026 | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | SQLSaturday | — | Introduction to the data build tool (dbt) adapter for Fabric as Insight Digital Innovations Many people learn from the Jaffle Shop sample dbt project. However, the complexity of the project is quite simple. | |
| Mar 16, 2026 | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | speaker | Herding Fabric Cats: Administration and Governance Guidance as Insight Fabric governance is challenging: users create workspaces fast, data sprawls, and costs spike. This session will help you "herd the cats" using Microsoft's…Show lessFabric governance is challenging: users create workspaces fast, data sprawls, and costs spike. This session will help you "herd the cats" using Microsoft's tools.You will leave with a practical, battle-tested governance framework and real-world strategies. | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | SQLSaturday Houston #1120 | SQLSaturday | — | How to effectively manage your Fabric ecosystem as Insight Digital Innovations Many companies are transitioning their PBI artifacts into Fabric and building new analytical stores in Fabric. How do you keep track of all those objects? | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | SQLSaturday Houston #1120 | SQLSaturday | — | Open mirroring for legacy data sources as Insight Digital Innovations Microsoft has spent time and energy on providing mirroring for popular data sources such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake and Databricks. What happens if…Show lessMicrosoft has spent time and energy on providing mirroring for popular data sources such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake and Databricks. What happens if your main data mart is a legacy system? | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | SQLSaturday Boston #1119 | SQLSaturday | — | Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric as Insight Digital Innovations Microsoft Fabric went to general availability in November 2023. The one lake concept focuses on using delta tables to create medallion zones for your data. | |
| Mar 29, 2025 | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | speaker | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Leveraging Fabric's Mirroring Features for Optimal Data Platform Creation as Insight Join Insight to explore the integration of Azure SQL Database, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake into Fabric OneLake, uncover effective Fabric patterns combining…Show lessJoin Insight to explore the integration of Azure SQL Database, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake into Fabric OneLake, uncover effective Fabric patterns combining pipelines and mirroring, and learn how to accelerate development with Copilot. | |
| Oct 5, 2024 | SQLSaturday Boston #1086 | SQLSaturday | — | Control your data lake with Databricks SQL Warehouse as Insight Digital Innovations Many companies are migrating their data to the cloud. Files are typically classified as containing unstructured, semi structured, and structured data. | |
| Oct 14, 2023 | SQLSaturday Boston #1046 | SQLSaturday | — | Transitioning your T-SQL skills to Spark SQL as Insight Digital Innovations This presentation is a crash course covering the basics of Spark SQL for the Microsoft T-SQL Server developer. Azure Databricks is a managed service which…Show lessThis presentation is a crash course covering the basics of Spark SQL for the Microsoft T-SQL Server developer. Azure Databricks is a managed service which provides the latest versions of Apache Spark based upon open source libraries. | |
| May 6, 2023 | SQLSaturday New York City #1048 | SQLSaturday | — | Explore your data lake with Synapse Serverless Pools as Insight Digital Innovations Many organizations are consolidating all their informational assets into data lake. This is a great idea since all the data is located in one place, both…Show lessMany organizations are consolidating all their informational assets into data lake. This is a great idea since all the data is located in one place, both structured and unstructured data can be stored, and many different types of users can access the data. | |
| Oct 5, 2019 | SQLSaturday New York City #912 | SQLSaturday | — | Effective Data Warehouse Storage Patterns as Insight DI (BlueMetal) Many companies start off with a simple data mart for reporting. As the company grows, users become dependent on the data mart for monitoring and making…Show lessMany companies start off with a simple data mart for reporting. As the company grows, users become dependent on the data mart for monitoring and making decisions on Key Performance Indicators (KPI). | |
| Oct 5, 2019 | SQLSaturday New York City #912 | SQLSaturday | — | How to audit and prevent unwanted user actions. as Insight DI (BlueMetal) Abstract: Many corporations are composed of small divisions located in countries throughout the world. While you might be the lead DBA for your corporation,…Show lessAbstract: Many corporations are composed of small divisions located in countries throughout the world. While you might be the lead DBA for your corporation, there are several other employees who have the keys to the kingdom. | |
| Sep 14, 2019 | SQLSaturday Boston #877 | SQLSaturday | — | How to audit and prevent unwanted user actions. as BlueMetal Abstract: Many corporations are composed of small divisions located in countries throughout the world. While you might be the lead DBA for your corporation,…Show lessAbstract: Many corporations are composed of small divisions located in countries throughout the world. While you might be the lead DBA for your corporation, there are several other employees who have the keys to the kingdom. | |
| May 4, 2019 | SQLSaturday Philadelphia #835 | SQLSaturday | — | Effective Data Warehouse Storage Patterns as BlueMetal Many companies start off with a simple data mart for reporting. As the company grows, users become dependent on the data mart for monitoring and making…Show lessMany companies start off with a simple data mart for reporting. As the company grows, users become dependent on the data mart for monitoring and making decisions on Key Performance Indicators (KPI). | |
| May 4, 2019 | SQLSaturday Philadelphia #835 | SQLSaturday | — | Staging data for Azure SQL services as BlueMetal Most companies are faced with the ever-growing big data problem. There have been two schools of thought on how to solve this problem. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Gordon | 7 | — | 2026 |
| Surbhi Pokharna | 7 | — | 2026 |
| Allan Hirt | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Deborah Melkin | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Edward Pollack | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Kevin Feasel | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Andy Yun | 6 | — | 2025 |
| Bob Ward | 5 | — | 2026 |
| David Bermingham | 5 | — | 2025 |
| George Walters | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Jean Joseph | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Thomas Grohser | 5 | — | 2023 |
| Chris Hyde | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Frank Geisler | 4 | — | 2026 |
| John Kerski | 4 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.